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How to Find Patent Sources

1. Definition

To preserve people’s rights of invention and creation, the rights gain from Intellectual Property Office (IPO) are called patent rights.

2. Function

Patent information helps researchers confirm new idea and product feasibility, saving time, money and avoid repeating. To protect the right of relevant skill, we should realize and control the patent information, also, evaluate and forecast the development of them. By application conditions from other countries, we can realize their technical levels and plan our own development projects, then controlling the developments of companies and the actual demand of market.

3. Recognize Patent Information

There are patent gazettes, patent specifications, patent abstracts and index tools. The former two are original materials and the latter two are materials arranged from the former two.

Patent Gazettes

The patent authorities from different countries uncover the contents of patent applications and materials of related bibliography. Take Taiwan as an example, the main contents of patent gazettes include: bibliographic information, patent claims and illustration, etc.

Patent Specifications

They are important documents that make the patent contents become words. It is also a necessary document when applying for patent. It includes the word description of invention content, which means its technical illustration, and explains the reference of the contract terms by using drawings.

Differences

Patent gazettes are mass published materials, they may only gazette part of materials, while patent specifications are public documents which uncover the patented technology detailedly.

Content and format: It can divide into five items, which are title, abstract, illustration, patent claims and drawings.

4. How to Find the Patent Materials

Patent gazettes and patent specifications are public documents, so we can use the platform search of patent databases from various countries to look up the patent information that we need.

Our library collects and arranges the free patent databases from different countries as follows to provide people to use:

（１）Taiwan Patent

Taiwan Patent Search 〈our patent〉

It is established for Intellectual Property Office and offers the database of patent specifications of our country. It provides Taiwan patent search after 1950 and the inquiry of patent law cases gratuitously.

● Google Patent Search : It can search the full-text of US patent, including connecting to the quotes from US patent, the image files of patent specification and the patent full-text in PDF right away.

The patent database of European Patent Office offers common people to search the worldwide patent information.

（４）Japanese Patent

Industrial Property Digital Library：It provides the public to search the Japanese licensed patents and can surf all Japanese patent specifications. Also, it provides the images of Japanese licensed patents gratuitously.

（５）Chinese Patent

● China Intellectual Property Right Net
It includes the Chinese patent information after 1985 and can download the full-text specification gratuitously. It also provides entire image files of Chinese patent full-text and the information of legal conditions.

（６）Korean Patent

● Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service It is an English version of Korea patent search system. It can show the English abstract while the patent specifications were mainly written in Korean. It includes patent bibliographies, images and patent specifications. All of them are free to use.

CA Plus is a chemical database which was widely used. It not only collects periodicals, dissertations and chemical professional books, but also provides search for patent information from other fifty countries in the world.

Search method: Besides using patent numbers, assignee names and inventors to search, it also can search by these following ways:

(1) Use CASRN to seek different chemical patents

(2) Use the titles of the chemicals and the molecular formulas to search or draw the structural formulas, then compare the patent information of the compounds.

● Patent Lens
It can search the entire patent information of US, EU, Australia and world. It can connect the quotes from US patent, the patent family and the images of patent full-text in PDF right away.

● Discovery Gate
It is an exploratory website which can integrate, index and connect scientific information. It can also access compound, related data, reaction, original periodical and patent right away.